Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Sending and recieving data between computers using JACK
From: Luke Yelavich (luke_AT_audioslack.com)
Date: Wed Aug 18 2004 - 16:21:50 EEST
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:13:21PM EST, Sampo Savolainen wrote:
> There is no way of doing real-time processing over a network reliably.
> Dropouts and timeouts, packet retries are in the nature of computer
> networks. UDP is a very smart way to (try to) send realtime data through
> a network. If the implementation is at least average, that is the best
> performance you can get.
Yeah, I am well aware of this. All it is is sending a PCM stream from one
machine to another over a LAN.
> jack.udp is probably as good as it gets. If you have problems, use a
> larger ring buffer size, place the computers more close to each other on
> the network, reduce other load on the router(s) between the computers.
There is only 2 small switches between them.
I will give jack.udp a try. Thanks
-- Luke Yelavich http://www.audioslack.com luke_AT_audioslack.com
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